Congrats to Spencer Ng for his induction into the Alpha Omega Alpha medical honor society!

Congratulations to the Class of 2018 on Match Day!

We are very proud of our M4's who recently received their residency matches! Best of luck to you all! In the coming years, our soon-to-be Emory MSTP alumni can be found doing amazing things at these programs:

Vineet Tiruvadi (BME) received a Whitaker International Fellowship. Mentor: Helen Mayberg, MD and Robert Butera, PhD

Jessie Preslar (Epi) was awarded an NIH Fogarty Fellowship that will allow her to spend a year doing field work in Sierra Leone. Mentor: Michael Kramer, PhD

Dave Mathews (IMP) was heavily involved in a $12.6 million NIH research award granted to his research group. Mentor: Andrew Adams, MD, PhD

Moji Hassan (IMP) was selected to be a mentor and graduate assistant to the STEM Pathways program at Emory College. This is a program for incoming 1st-generation freshmen and helps them smooth the transition to college and explore science careers.

Aimee Vester (Environmental Health) received a Graduate Teaching Fellowship from Emory’s SIRE program. She will mentor undergraduates and lead a research course this upcoming year.

Howard Chiou receives Emory Who's Who Award

April 4, 2017

Congratulations to Howard Chiou for receiving Emory's Who's Who award which honors outstanding campus leaders for their scholastic and community achievements.

Congratulations to our M4's on Match Day 2017!

Congratulations to our M4's who matched into fantastic residency programs! We wish you all the best of luck in what is bound to be very successful careers!

General Surgery at the University of Wisconsin

Internal Medicine at Albert Einstein / Montefiore Medical Center

Internal Medicine at Emory University School of Medicine

Internal Medicine at Harvard / Mass. General Hospital

Internal Medicine at UCLA

Internal Medicine at UCSF

Internal Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh

Pediatrics at Harvard / Boston Children's Hospital

Psychiatry at Emory University School of Medicine

Other: Consultant / Boston Consulting Group

Co-Directors Dr. Robert Gross and Mary Horton celebrated and recognized in this month's Emory Medicine newsletter

November 29, 2016

Congratulations to Dr. Robert Gross for his appointment as VP of the American Society for Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery! The seminar series organized by Mary Horton, "Doctors who changed Medicine", was also recognized in this month's Emory Medicine Newsletter. For more, click here.

Dr. Paul Garcia (Emory MSTP alum) featured in Emory News

September 28, 2016

Dr. Paul Garcia, a graduate and faculty mentor of Emory's MSTP program is interviewed for his role as a neuroanesthesiologist and a scientist studying the pharmacology involved with sedation, sleep, coma, and anesthesia. To read more, click here.

Howard Chiou featured in the Emory Report for Class of 2016

May 8, 2016

Howard Chiou, who will soon receive a PhD in Anthropology from the Laney Graduate School, was recently featured in the Emory Report. Learn about his journey of becoming a medical anthropologist/physician here.

Danielle Cicka featured in eScienceCommons

April 8, 2016

Featured in this article, 2nd year MD/PhD student Danielle Cicka worked with Dr. Quave as part of a first year self-directed seminar.

Dr. Jaime Hatcher-Martin, an assistant professor in movement disorder neurology at Emory University who did consulting work for Apple on the CareKit version of mPower, notes that these high-quality apps, developed by researchers who study specific conditions, also provide doctors with objective data such as measuring a person’s tremor, recording a person’s voice and even collecting information on a person’s walking gait. Click here to access the full article.

Congratulations Class of 2016!!

March 18, 2016

Congratulations to class of 2016, who successfully matched today into some of the nation's top programs!! More details to be announced shortly.

Training Faculty part of the nation's first Healthcare Robotics degree programs

October 16, 2015

Three members of our training faculty - Lena Ting, Uriel Kitron, and Carol Worthman - from the Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University are part of the two universities' joint effort to create the first healthcare robotics program in the country. Over the next five years with support from a 2.9 million dollar NSF grant, the program will establish undergraduate and doctoral programs in healthcare robotics technologies. For the full press release, please see this article.

Graduate mentors recognized by School of Medicine

October 15, 2015

As part of School of Medicine's Faculty Recognition Week, Dean Christian Larsen acknowledged faculty who were recognized by their departments as being "Hidden Gems". Among the list are several faculty who are deeply integrated into the mentorship and guidance of MSTP students, including Drs. Gari Clifford, Jonathan Cohen, Michael Davis, Paul Garcia, and Malu Tansey. Congrats to all of these hidden gems!

Mentor pays it forward, is featured in the July/August Decatur Focus

July 29, 2015

Co-directory Anita Corbett was featured in the magazine "Decatur Focus" for her donation of the monetary award associated with her recent Eleanor Main Graduate Mentor award to the Decatur Education Foundation. We're proud of Dr. Corbett for her acheivements and philanthropy. The full article can be read on the Decatur Focus website.

Michael Mina interviewed on NPR

May 14, 2015

Michael was recently featured in an NPR interview on his thesis work on the effect of measles on a child's overall health. Check it out at NPR's website - including an audio version of the story.

Congratulations Dr. David Gutman!

May 11, 2015

Dr. Gutman and collaborators in the Department of Biomedical Informatics were the recipients of a $3.5 million U24 award from the National Cancer Institute. Congrats to Dr. Gutman on this great acheivment! For more information, please read the press release from the Winship Cancer Institute.

Congratulations IMP Student George Kannarkat!

April 29, 2015

George published a paper in the inaugural issue of NPJ Parkinson's Disease entitled "Immune gene variant magnified Parkinson's risk from insectiside exposure." The study was a collaborative effort between Emory University and UCLA. Congratulations George! You can view the Emory press release and read the article in it's entirety online.

Congratulations to Dr. Anita Corbett and Orion Kiefer!

April 24, 2015

Dr. Anita Corbett, co-Director of the MSTP, and M3 MD/PhD student Orion Kiefer, Jr., as the first recipients of the Laney Graduate School's Eleanor Main Graduate Mentor Awards! The awards are given to the graduate student and faculty who "set the standard for mentorship excellence at Emory." We're incredibly proud of Orion and Anita on this amazing acheivement! More information can be found on the Laney Graduate School press release.

Congratulations to our M4's on Match Day 2015!

Last week, we had 9 of our M4's match into fantastic residency programs! We wish you all the best of luck in what is bound to be very successful careers!

General Surgery at the University of Wisconsin

Internal Medicine at Albert Einstein / Montefiore Medical Center

Internal Medicine at Emory University School of Medicine

Internal Medicine at Harvard / Mass. General Hospital

Internal Medicine at UCLA

Internal Medicine at UCSF

Internal Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh

Pediatrics at Harvard / Boston Children's Hospital

Psychiatry at Emory University School of Medicine

Photo courtesy of Jack Kearse/Emory University

Congratulations to our M4's on Match Day 2014!

Last week, 6 M4's from our program successfully matched into top residency programs across the country! A hearty congratulations to all of them, and best wishes in their careers ahead! The residencies they matched into are:

Congratulations IMP Student Nina Salinger Prasanphanich!

Nina was awarded the Benjamin H. Kean Travel Fellowship in Tropical Medicine to support her to conduct research in Africa this year.

Nina will join Ethan Bornstein (Emory School of Medicine) as one of 20 Kean Fellows for 2013.

Congratulations Anthropology Student Howard Chiou!

Howie was awarded a 2013 NSF East Asia and Pacific Summer Institutes for U.S. Graduate Students (EAPSI) fellowship which will send him to Australia for 2 months.

Howie was also awarded an R36 from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's (AHRQ) for his project "From Cowboys to Pit Crew: An ethnographic study of the process of implementing a team-based care model on inpatient hospital units".

Congratulations BME Student Scott Robinson!

Scott was awarded a Student Research Fellowship by the Society for Vascular Surgery.

Scott also received a grant from the American Medical Association (AMA) Foundation's Seed Grant Research Program. Read the press release.

Congratulations BCDB Student Ana Monteiro!

Ana was recently awarded the 2013 Merit Award from the Experimental Biology Conference hosted by the Association of Investigative Pathologists (ASIP).

Congratulations Neuroscience Student Sammy Lee!

Sammy's manuscript "Motor and sensory neuropathy due to myelin infolding and paranodal damage in a transgenic mouse model of Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease type 1C" was published in Human Molecular Genetics.

Congratulations BME Student Keon-Young Park!

Keon-Young's manuscript "Patient specific proteolytic activity of monocyte-derived macrophages and osteoclasts predicted with temporal kinase activation states during differentiation" was recently selected for the cover article in the Integrative Biology.

Congratulations Director Kerry Ressler, MD/PhD!

Dr. Ressler (MD/PhD Program Associate Director) has been elected as a member of the Institute of Medicine (IOM). His election to the IOM recognizes his significant advances in the field of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and fear conditioning. Dr. Ressler is a researcher at Emory University's Yerkes National Primate Research Center, an associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Emory University School of Medicine, and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator.

Congratulations Anthropology Student Howard Chiou!

Howie was named as a finalist for the 2012 Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education (POD) Innovation Award for his work, in collaboration with Brian Croxall (English), designing a project to further the pedagogical development of graduate students. Eat. Talk. Teach. Run! (ETTR): Changing Graduate Student Teaching One Fro-Yo and Bánh Mì at a Time utilizes a novel format to capture and disseminate graduate student innovations in teaching. Participants present four-minute lightning talks on their innovative techniques, assignments, and philosophies. Subsequent lines for food and a cafe-style layout are arranged purposively to encourage waiting and, consequently, conversations about teaching with people from disciplines outside their own. The on-the-go format was designed to facilitate graduate student community building while accommodating busy schedules. Howie and Brian will compete for the award at the annual POD conference in Seattle, WA (October 24 - 28, 2012), where the winner will be announced.

Earlier this year, Ben was awarded a NRSA F30 training grant from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) for his project "Regulation of Endothelial Adhesion by VE-Cadherin Endocytosis". You can read more about it at the NIH Reporter website.

Congratulations IMP Student Devon Livingston-Rosanoff!

Devon's manuscript "Antiviral T Cell Response Triggers Cytomegalovirus Hepatitis in Mice" was recently published in the Journal of Virology.

Earlier this year, Orion was awarded an HHMI/STEP Curriculum Development Fellowship and a GDBBS Student Mentor Award.

Congratulations IMP Student Duke Geem!

Duke was awarded an NRSA F30 by the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) Health for his project "The regulation of intestinal immune homeostasis by APCs and lymphocytes.".

Duke's manuscript "Isolation and characterization of dendritic cells and macrophages from the mouse intestine" was recently published in the Journal of Visualized Experiments.

Congratulations Neuroscience Student David Bass!

David was awarded an NRSA F30 by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) for his project "Amygdala Mediated Enhancement of Object Recognition Memory in the Hippocampus". You can read more about his award on the NIH Reporter website.

David's manuscript "Event-specific enhancement of memory via brief electrical stimulation to the basolateral complex of the amygdala in rats" was recently published in Behavioral Neuroscience.